Let's pretend we are in an alternate reality

Let's pretend we are in an alternate reality. Lets say that apple corporation never came to be, and there is no such thing as OSx. Everything else, however, is the same. What operating system would you use, and why?

I would use Ubuntu (a distro of Linux). I actually really like it, a lot. I used to love Apple computers, but I could never afford one, because I was always too poor. Oh well. Ill get one eventually

Let's pretend we are in an alternate reality. Lets say that apple corporation never came to be, and there is no such thing as OSx. Everything else, however, is the same. What operating system would you use, and why?

I would use Ubuntu (a distro of Linux). I actually really like it, a lot. I used to love Apple computers, but I could never afford one, because I was always too poor. Oh well. Ill get one eventually

I agree with Ubuntu as a solid choice it runs great on cheap hardware. I dual boot on my mac and on my dell laptop using Ubuntu. my Dell has a windows partition but I don't use it very much except to troubleshoot the rest of the windows PCs in the house through the LAN

So in this "alternate reality," OSes that exist in this reality exist in their current forms? Wouldn't the fact that Apple and thus OS X do not exist drastically alter the outcome of computing?

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Of course, but I don't think that's really in the spirit of the OPs thread. I'd be running Ubuntu as well, as I enjoyed that OS well enough before I went back to OS X. I also keep hearing good things about Windows 7, so I'd probably give that a try too.

Of course, but I don't think that's really in the spirit of the OPs thread. I'd be running Ubuntu as well, as I enjoyed that OS well enough before I went back to OS X. I also keep hearing good things about Windows 7, so I'd probably give that a try too.

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Well if the spirit of the thread is to ignore what an alternate reality entails... Why not just call it "my first functional reality."

I think Linux would have been way more popular right now as a Windows alternative, if there were no OS X. Google would have been quicker to release an OS as well. Perhaps another company that we have never heard of would have come along and offered an awesome OS. There would be a void that I'm sure would be trying to get filled. I shutter at the thought.

OS/2. In my alternate reality, no one fell for the Windows 95 marketing hoopla. IBM actually began to sell OS/2 to real people, after addressing their button-down-shirt all-business issues.

Viruses never existed.

Bill Gates took a job running a tour boat out in the bay. Melinda married Bill Clinton, and she became president.

And the best brownies in the world come from a little company called WozJobs, out in California. They opened franchises all across the country. Their brownies are pretty good, but you can only eat them with a special fork that costs $100 each.

There. That's an alternate reality. We now return to regular reality, already in progress.

OS/2. In my alternate reality, no one fell for the Windows 95 marketing hoopla. IBM actually began to sell OS/2 to real people, after addressing their button-down-shirt all-business issues.

Viruses never existed.

Bill Gates took a job running a tour boat out in the bay. Melinda married Bill Clinton, and she became president.

And the best brownies in the world come from a little company called WozJobs, out in California. They opened franchises all across the country. Their brownies are pretty good, but you can only eat them with a special fork that costs $100 each.

There. That's an alternate reality. We now return to regular reality, already in progress.

Linux was utter pants back in the late 90s early 2000's if you had a lot of peripherals (as I did back then). I lasted 3 or 4 months on a Gentoo build then had no choice but get to get my life back and install Windows. Unless Linux has drastically improved since those days, then I'd be on Windows I guess..

Also, all the healthy food would taste like cake and cinnamon danishes.

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